Old Ted

Old Ted he does know all about life for he has been there and done that
He has shorn sheep in North Queensland and laid water pipes in Ararat
He was also in demand as a horse breaker one of the best of the outback
He tamed many a bucking wild brumby and in courage he did not lack

Old Ted in his twilight years single one who never did have a wife
And he never did father children though he did have women in his life
In his younger years he was an itinerant worker one who liked to move from place to place
His kind always rare are nowadays even rarer one might say an endangered race

For one who is in his mid eighties he is one who has aged quite well
Though time that is known to rust iron on him is beginning to tell
The years on him nowadays are showing he is not the man he used to be
The man who with a hand shears once shore in ten hours two hundred big wethers in Queensland in nineteen sixty three

Old Ted's home is a basement apartment one happy to live on his own
He is such a likeable person and to many he is quite well known
His traveling and working days are now over back in the old Hometown for to stay
He will die where he grew into manhood and first looked on the bright lamp of day.